5 JULY 1834, Page 2
The news from Constantinople is of a rather warlike aspect.
A considerable Russian naval force was in the waters of the Bos- phorus, and the fleets of France and England were concentrated in the Levant. The disorders in Bagdad were said to be alarming, and measures for suppressing them were in preparation. The real object, however, of the new levies and equipments, was supposed to be the getting up some force to repel MEHEMET ALI, whose views of further aggrandizement at the expense of the Sultan were ill-concealed.